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  • Fishmongers' Hall and Fish Street Hill.
  • London Bridge.
  • Upper Thames Street.
  • Upper Thames Street (continued).
  • Lower Thames Street.
  • The Tower.
  • The Tower (continued).
  • The Tower (continued).
  • The Tower (continued).
  • The Neighbourhood of the Tower.
  • Neighbourhood of the Tower.-The Mint.
  • Neighbourhood Of The Tower. (Continued).
  • St. Katherine's Docks.
  • The Tower Subway and London Docks.
  • The Thames Tunnel, Ratcliff Highway, and Wapping.
  • Stepney.
  • Whitechapel.
  • Bethnal Green.
  • Spitalfields.
  • Bishopsgate.
  • Bishopsgate (continued).
  • Cornhill, Gracechurch Street, and Fenchurch Street.
  • Leadenhall Street and the Old East India House.
  • Leadenhall Street (continued).
  • Shoreditch.
  • Moorfields and Finsbury.
  • Aldersgate Street and St. Martin's-Le-Grand.
  • Aldersgate Street (continued).
  • Cripplegate.
  • Cripplegate (continued).
  • Aldgate, the minories, and Crutched Friars.
  • Islington.
  • Islington (continued).
  • Canonbury.
  • Highbury-Upper Holloway-King's Cross.
  • Pentonville.
  • Sadler's Wells.
  • Bagnigge Wells.
  • Coldbath Fields and Spa Fields.
  • Hockley-In-The-Hole.
  • Clerkenwell.
  • Clerkenwell-(continued).
  • Smithfield.
  • Smithfield and Bartholomew Fair.
  • The Churches of Bartholomew-The-Great and Bartholomew-The-Less.
  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
  • Christ's Hospital.
  • The Charterhouse.
  • The Charterhouse--(continued).
  • The Fleet Prison.
  • The Fleet River and Fleet Ditch.
  • Newgate Street.
  • Newgate.
  • Newgate (continued).
  • The Old Bailey.
  • St. Sepulchre's and its Neighbourhood.
  • The Metropolitan Meat-Market.
  • Farringdon Street, Holborn Viaduct, and St. Andrew's Church.
  • Ely Place.
  • Holborn, to Chancery Lane.
  • The Northern Tributaries of Holborn.
  • The Holborn Inns of Court and Chancery.
  • The Holborn Inns of Court and Chancery (continued).
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    Walter Thornbury, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Volume 2

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    Fishmongers' Hall and Fish Street Hill.

    The First Fishmongers' Hall--William Walworth--The Wealth and Power of the Old Fishmongers--Their Quarrels--Their Records--The present Hall--Walworth's Dagger--Walworth's Pall--Fish Street Hill--The Churchyard of St. Leonard's--Goldsmith and Monument Yard.--


    Queen Victoria Street.

    Where Fishmongers' Hall, that handsome Anglo-Greek building at the west side of the foot of London Bridge still stands this rich semi-marine Company have had a stronghold ever since the reign of Edward III. It was in this convenient spot also, that that most warlike and eminent of Fishmongers, Sir William Walworth, himself resided during the reign of Richard II., the monarch whose crown he saved by a single blow of his prompt sword.

    Mr. Herbert, who took great pains about this question, says that there were originally five tenements on the site of Fishmongers' Hall. The frontage towards Thames Street was 120 feet, and the depth to the river about 200 feet. The plot of ground stood in Upper Thames Street, between the Water Gate and Old Swan Lane, and lay in three parishes. It was parted into six great slips by five stairs to the Thames, as seen in "The Exact Survey of the Ruins of London after the Fire of 1666." The stairs were--Water Gate (originally called Oyster Hill, and afterwards the Gully Hole), the site of the old water works, Churchyard Alley, Fleur de Luce Alley,


    This text is based on the following book(s):
    London, New York, Cassell, Peter & Galpin [1872-78] .


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